2024 Rip Valley Fantasy Football League Details

Summary

Your spot in the Rip Valley Fantasy Football League grants you a daily fantasy football team for the entire NFL season, as well as a guaranteed spot in 17 football card breaks totaling an estimated $2500 value per person.*

*Estimated value of breaks per person based on fair market values of all products in August, 2024. Value per person will vary depending on weekly results. Estimated break value is not a guarantee.

  1. Fantasy Football

Your spot in the Rip Valley Fantasy Football League is for a daily fantasy football team on the DraftKings platform.  You will select your roster each week on the DraftKings platform for Sunday’s games only.  Your weekly roster will be comprised of:

  • 1 Quarterback 
  • 2 Running Backs
  • 3 Wide Receivers 
  • 1 Tight End
  • 1 Defense/Special Teams

Your rosters are due for each week’s games at 9:00 AM PT each Sunday morning and will include Sunday games only.  

*If you fail to complete your roster before kick-off of the Sunday morning games, your roster will not be auto-drafted. You will be ineligible to win the week and will post 0 points for that week. 

The prices for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place throughout the entire season are as follows:

Season Prizes 

1st place: $10,000 

2nd place: $4,000 

3rd place: $2,000

Season length: 18 weeks (17 breaks)

  • First NFL game (week 1): Sunday, September 8th
  • Last NFL game (week 18): Sunday, January 5th

Each weekly 1st place finisher will receive a $500 prize.  The top three finishers each will get to pick their team spot in the football card break occurring in the next weekly break after.  1st place will get the first pick, then 2nd and then 3rd.  The other 29 spots in each football break will be randomly assigned.

  • Football Card Breaks

There will be 17 football box breaks after the first 17 weeks of the season.  There will not be a football box break after week 18 (final week of the season).  The following is a list of products comprising the 17 football box breaks.

Breaks*

  • Three (3) 2023 Panini Impeccable Football hobby boxes
  • Four (4) 2023 Panini Optic Football hobby boxes
  • Four (4) 2023 Panini Optic Football hobby boxes
  • Four (4) 2023 Panini Optic Football hobby boxes
  • Five (5) 2023 Panini Contenders Optic Football hobby boxes
  • Five (5) 2023 Panini Contenders Optic Football hobby boxes
  • Five (5) 2023 Panini Contenders Optic Football hobby boxes
  • Five (5) 2023 Panini Contenders Optic Football hobby boxes
  • Four (4) 2023 Panini Select Football hobby boxes
  • Four (4) 2023 Panini Select Football hobby boxes
  • Four (4) 2023 Panini Select Football hobby boxes
  • Six (6) 2023 Topps Composite Football hobby boxes
  • Six (6) 2023 Topps Composite Football hobby boxes
  • Two (2) 2023 Panini National Treasures Football boxes 
  • Two (2) 2023 Panini National Treasures Football boxes 
  • One (1) 2023 Panini Flawless Football box
  • One (1) 2023 Panini Flawless Football box

*The exact order of breaks on this list will be determined at a later time

Breaking Bonus Points

In addition to the performance of your daily fantasy roster, your performance in the breaks can add bonus points to your season-long total.

Bonus points earned in the breaks count only towards your season-long total. Breaking bonus points do not get applied towards your weekly roster total.

*Player must be on your daily fantasy football roster the next week to earn bonus points*  

Bonus Points

Hitting a card numbered /99 or less (non auto) + 1 receiving/rushing TD or 2 passing TD’s–

25 bonus points

Hitting a card numbered /10 or less (non auto) + 1 receiving/rushing TD or 2 passing TD’s–

50 bonus points

Hitting any autographed card + 1 receiving/rushing TD or 2 passing TD’s–

100 bonus points

Hitting any rookie-patch-autograph card (RPA) + 1 receiving/rushing TD or 2 passing TD’s–

200 bonus points

Hitting any card numbered 1/1 + 1 receiving/rushing TD or 2 passing TD’s–

250 bonus points

Hitting any ‘Shield’ card (numbered 1/1 that includes an NFL shield patch) + 1 receiving/rushing TD or 2 passing TD’s–

500 bonus points

 

For example: Let’s say you have the Cowboys spot in a Wednesday evening break and you pull a Dak Prescott, numbered to 99.  You must then decide if you’re going to start him in your QB spot for his next game on Sunday.  Starting Prescott that week may not be your best decision to win the week, but if you do start him and he throws 2 TD or more, you will receive an extra 25 bonus points for the overall season. 

The cards you hit in the breaks can add points to your Fantasy Football total.

  • Weekly Schedule

Monday– 

Tuesday– Top 3 finishers will select a pick your team (PYT) spot for the next week’s break (the other 29 team’s spots will be randomized) $500 bounty for the 1st place finisher will also be paid

Wednesday– The weekly break will take place in the evening live on Fanatics Live. Your cards will be shipped out the next morning

Thursday– 

Friday– 

Saturday–

Sunday– 9am PT: all rosters are due before the Sunday slate of games kick-off

Keeping Track of Bonus Points

Keeping track of your performance each week in the fantasy football league can be simply done in DraftKings.  That’s the place where you will be able to see if you have a chance at finishing 1st, 2nd or 3rd place each week.

The potential breaking bonus points you accrue in addition to your points in the fantasy football league will be added only to your season-long total.  In order to keep track of your standing in the season-long total, we will share an online scoreboard with you at the start of the season.  The scoreboard will be updated at the beginning of each week.

  • Cost

$3,000: Cost for your fantasy football team and a guaranteed spot in 17 breaks